Aurore Dessureault-Descôteaux (May 10, 1926 – April 24, 2015) was a writer in

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, Canada. She was perhaps best known as the author of the

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. She was born Aurore Dessureault in

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. She married Rosario Descôteaux, who died in 1999. The couple had eight children. Her son is an actor. She wrote three plays: ''Marche par-là Graziela'', ''Du foin pour les Mongrain'' and ''La revanche de Graziela'', a novel ''Entre Chien et Loup'' and a history of her birthplace, ''St-Narcisse, Histoire du Troisième Rang – En suivant les roulières''. She also helped establish the first municipal library at Grand-Mère. During the 1990s, Dessureault-Descôteaux published a column "Le Signe des temps" in ''Le Nouvelliste''. In 1969, she was named Madame Châtelaine by the magazine '' Châtelaine''. Dessureault-Descôteaux died in Grand-Mère at the age of 88.

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